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The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known as the Vit Plant, will process the nuclear waste at the Hanford Site in Washington into a solid glass form using vitrification. A proven technology that has been used at the Savannah River Site [1] and West Valley Demonstration Project, vitrification involves mixing the waste with ...
The vitrification plant at the Hanford site has hit a new milestone — pouring glass for the first time since construction began 21 years ago. “This marks another important step in ...
April 16, 2023 at 9:42 PM. The Department of Energy has awarded a Hanford site contract with an estimated value of up to $45 billion over a decade to a newly formed limited liability company. The ...
The least radioactive waste in 22 of Hanford’s 149 leak-prone single-shell tanks could be turned into a concrete-like grout. Grouting has been considered and dismissed for decades, but grouting ...
Hanford Site. Coordinates: 46°38′51″N 119°35′55″W. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the ...
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...
Construction stopped at the Pretreatment Facility at the Hanford vitrification plant to resolve technical issues. Ecology said when it started negotiations that it did not plan to budge on key terms.
In 2001, Bechtel began work on the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford site in Washington state. The project is a highly complex plant for the treatment of radioactive liquid waste that has employed new technologies and construction techniques that are the first of their kind.